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    Marilyn McCord Adams argues in 'Horrendous Evils' that ch... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sinners can freely separate themselves from God forever.

    Marilyn McCord Adams argues in 'Horrendous Evils' that choices made under conditions of profound cognitive impairment cannot ground eternal consequences.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires adequate cognitive capacity to understand consequences and deliberate rationally about one's choices.
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    • 2.Profound cognitive impairment systematically undermines the autonomy necessary for choices to reflect a person's true moral character.
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    • 3.Eternal punishment for cognitively impaired choices violates proportionality principles central to just accountability systems.
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    • 1.Many cognitive impairments are matters of degree, not kind; drawing a clear threshold for responsibility becomes philosophically arbitrary.
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    • 2.Moral agents may bear responsibility for prior choices that resulted in their impairment, making current impairment-based excuses questionable.
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    • 3.Eternal consequences might attach to persistent character dispositions rather than discrete choices, bypassing the impairment objection entirely.
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